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"The Thirties: The Arts in Italy Beyond Fascism" on view at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence |
| September 23rd, 2012 01:35:10 am |
FLORENCE.- Palazzo Strozzi showcases the art of the 1930s from masterpieces by Sironi, Martini, Fontana and Guttuso to design and the applied arts, exploring the most innovative and vibrant art of the era. This retrospective takes an unprecedented look through contemporary eyes at painting and sculpture to design and mass communication during a period of extraordinary change in the arts. The Thirties. The Arts in Italy Beyond Fascism comprises 96 paintings, 17 sculptures and 20 objects of design and tells the story of a crucial era characterised by an extremely vigorous arts scene in the years of the Fascist regime, against a backdrop that included the embryonic development of mass communication in Italy – radio, cinema and illustrated magazines – which stole numerous ideas from the “fine” arts and transmitted them to a broader audience. This retrospective illustrates an era that profoundly changed the history of Italy. The 1930s also witnessed the increas |
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